Photo courtesy of flickr, tarsandsaction.org stream Link
Excerpt from Bloomberg:
James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was arrested outside the White House as he joined protesters in urging President Barack Obama to reject TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s $7 billion pipeline. Before he was taken into custody today, Hansen took a megaphone and implored Obama to act “for the sake of your children and grandchildren.”
In the following video, Dr. Hansen is plain spoken, coherent, and obviously quite convincing. His manner of delivery and calmness is actually something that Al Gore could learn from. Also, why isn’t Al Gore showing solidarity with these protestors?
“If Obama chooses the dirty needle it will confirm that the president was just green-washing all along,” Hansen, 70, who took a vacation day from his job at the New York based institute to participate in the protest, said in an e-mailed statement.
I wonder if NASA has a three strikes policy, this is arrest #3 from Dr. Hansen.
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He should be fired.
Private industry has a code of conduct that people can be terminated for, it is about time we start applying that to our public servants as well. No public employee should be allowed to practice illeagal civil disobedience and still keep their public sector job, period.
This Hansen guy is a loon
Apart from anything else it is clear that the US needs to enforce some kind of standard on its employees. I really can’t imagine that someone as loopy as this guy is of any use in his job even on the odd occasion when he actually makes it into the office.
Photo courtesy of flickr, tarsandsaction.org stream Link
Also, “Hey Obama be our Tarzan”? what the hell !
Does he still draw his gub’mint paycheck while he’s in jail?
Just askin’.
That man is chuckoo for cocoa puffs.
Same copyright…
Large crowd. /sarc.
The lamestream media will say it was in the thousands.
Once again I ask:
If someone is willing to break the law in order to ‘save the planet’, why wouldn’t he also be willing to fudge the data?
Retirement beckons, surely………..
Well, here’s a video of the event and the reaction from the impressive crowd of protesters:
http://www.energynow.com/video/2011/08/29/nasa-scientist-james-hansen-arrested
And here’s a closer still:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/29/top-nasa-climate-scientist-arrested-at-white-house/
CJrun
[? there’s like 15 people “protesting”. holy crap, this has to lead all 3-nightly news broadcasts]
Question-
Does Hansen get his paycheck from NASA docked when he demonstrates on a weekday during business hours? Who should the complaint be addressed to?
Any one notice the hypocrisy on display in that one single photo….I speak of all the plastic one time use water bottles that litter the ground. That plastic was created by oil and will be around for 100 years. All 5 do not seem to have a owner and will not be recycles but tossed out with normal trash when the park service has to clean up the mess this protest will leave.
Read the story! Hansen took a “vacation day” — which will likely turn into a week or so.
Somebody needs to tell those protesters that bottled water is bad for the environment.
What’s the retirement age in the USA?
It has just been raised to 67 here in the UK.
I would be fired for this kind of behaviour. I’m sick to death of those in government positions being shielded from the ethics requirements of the rest of society.
So right he was arrested, wearing brown shoes with a dark suit, the man has no sense of style or taste whatever. The Fashionista Police were only doing their duty.
And as for the hat? Words fail me.
UK civil servants have a choice: give up politics to do with your job or give up your job.
Likewise judges … they cannot have a public opinion about cases, they loose their right to free speech in order to protect the public right to justice.
It’s just part of the job, and likewise real Scientists have the same choice: throw away any pretence of being impartial and leave your job to be an activist, or give up activism and do your jobs as impartially as you can.
As such Hansen is utterly corrupt. He wants to be treated as an impartial judge of the facts, whilst simultaneously being an overt partial activist.
I presume the folks are applauding because he’s finally being hauled off . . .
You know……
I’ll give the man credit….he does walk the walk
But anyone that thinks he separates that from his science believes in…..
nevermind………
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/08/18/bizarre-craptastic-theory-from-the-guardian-penn-state-and-nasa-et-will-kill-us-because-global-warming-will-tip-them-off-that-we-are-a-bad-species/
The whole thing looked very strange to me. James hansen obviously volunteered to be arrested, meekly walked to the officer and put his hands behind his back ready to be cuffed. Blatant staging if you ask me.
Yeah, and then he goes back to work as a professional scientist only interested in where the evidence takes him………sure.
The thing I like about Hansen is that he believes in what he is doing. What is so awful about him is that he even understands that ‘renewable’ energy doesn’t work, knows that nuclear is being blocked by the green’s and still wants us to shut down our sources of energy. He is decidedly anti-progress, anti-capitalist and doesn’t consider the poverty and starvation which would result to be any problem at all.
He does believe in himself though. I just which taxpayers weren’t forced to fund his sorry butt.